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Last year Harvard beat Columbia, 7-2, only to lose to Princeton, 5-4. Coming off of an emotion-packed victory against Columbia, and with the edge in depth, the Crimson has an excellent chance to turn the tables on Princeton and then go on to rake the EITA championship...
...Harvard, mainly because the difficulty of the music, the problems in performance, and the relative unpopularity of the style all militate against either a decent production or a box office success. The main reason. it seems, Lowell House was able to stage its elaborate production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress is the hundred and fifty or so opera patrons, ranging from Nathan Pusey to McGeorge Bundy, who paid twenty dollars apiece for the privilege of attending Thursday night's black tie opening and reception in the Lowell House dining hall...
Lowell House's Rake is a generally competent performance, one in which the director and all the leads are professionals, imported from outside of Harvard. The orchestra, directed by Gerald Moshell, is well rehearsed and effective, with the exception of some weakness in the violins and an occasional embarrassment from the born. Moshell has done a fine job in putting together and preparing an orchestra at the same time of year when two other operas and the HRO are also performing...
This production of The Rake is uneven, the first act going far too slowly, the others much more well-paced. The staging is ornate, with nothing loft to the viewer's imagination, including even the sedan chair in which Baba is carried around by her coterie of overdressed servants, and the two-foot-long stuffed bird she carries in her hand. Perhaps the most annoying part of the production is its director, Michael Kaye, who spent the early part of Thursday's performance bustling about officiously, but relatively silently, and then ruined the last act by shouting directions...
Still, Menotti has already played a decisive historical role in contemporary opera. His success with The Medium (1946) and The Telephone (1947), for example, may or may not have had an influence on such subsequent works as Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (1951) and Poulenc's La Voix Humaine (1958), but they clearly helped create an audience for contemporary opera...